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myspace, along with three of the four major record companies, have agreed to create a music website where you will be able to listen to free streaming music, make your own playlists and share them, and download music for things like your ipod.
who knows what might come out of this. this idea will be something that goes up against itunes, another place where you can easily buy music with the click of your mouse (or touchpad). i personally think it's a great idea. myspace already has a huge community, so why not extend it with music, which is always a conversation-stimulator for people (big fan of the term conversation-stimulator).
now, instead of sharing your playlists through a shared network connection like on itunes, you can do that through myspace. you can discuss your music, talk to people about other artists who play similar music, and then it's also just another way to meet people.
there might be a catch though. they're thinking about making it a monthly subscription type thing, which you pay per month and get unlimited access to the music.
here is the link to the article if the top link didn't work
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/03/technology/03cnd-myspace.html?_r=2&8au=&or&oref=slogin
on another note..
kudos to meyo for sending me this song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfJe8hQ8ha0
fun question of the day: what athlete has starred in the most movies?
The paradox of insular language
2 years ago
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So basically they are making a less good version of www.last.fm ?
who knows how the site will be. it might kill last.fm, it might be a failure, or both of them might be able to co-exist.
but, the thing that myspace and all those record companies have is money. they can easily market the website and reach larger audiences much easier.
this was the first time i've heard of last.fm and i'm impressed. it's a great idea and it's very easy to use.
last.fm looks great on first glance, but it doesn't do a great job once you start digging into it. The site is sprawling with different pages for the same things, account pages and feature pages that don't coexist, and a downloadable widget that doesn't help out too much. They also only allow you to play song snippets. I do like their charts and popularity tracking though.
A better music social network is www.MOG.com
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